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That's How You're Using Story Points? No Way.
Story points are about estimating relative effort, gauging how difficult it will be to complete one feature relative to another. They are an abstraction of the cost, effort, and labor needed to produce that feature. Simple enough concept right? Wrong. Some teams are using story points to rank features rather than estimate effort. Hard to believe? Read on.
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Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++
Developers have long requested C99 language support for Visual Studio. Microsoft's Herb Sutter indicates this will not be forthcoming with VS11 and proposes two solutions: using ISO C++ compliant code or switch to a competitor's compiler.
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Running MSTest in SharpDevelop
SharpDevelop currently comes with support for NUnit and offers the Gallio Addin for MBUnit. Recently Matt Ward announced the addition of MSTest support via a new add-on.
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Azavea Announces Release of GeoTrellis under GPLv3 License
Azavea a company based in Philadelphia that provides products for geographical data, has published an open source product called GeoTrellis under GNU GPL v3 license which is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
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Localizing Your Windows 8 App
In the article “Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI”, Tim Heuer shows how to localize the language of a Windows 8 .NET App along with various tools that can help in the process.
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vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js
Vert.x is a framework for the next generation of asynchronous, scalable, concurrent applications, which aims to provide an alternative to Node.js for the JVM. It allows developers to write their application using JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Java or even mix and match.
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MoSH - The Mobile Shell
The Mobile Shell takes a number of new approaches in providing shell connections for mobile and roaming clients.
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An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express
The future of Visual Studio Express is uncertain. While there definitely will be an Express editions, it looks like the only variants will be for Windows 8 and Web. Those wishing to do desktop development using C++, VB, or C# and VS 11 may need to purchase Visual Studio Standard or higher.
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XobotOS: Android Build on C# Instead of Java
Xamarin, the current care takers of the Mono project, have released a prototype of Android with the Java virtual machine completely removed. In its place is the Mono for Android version of the CLR, with most of the Java APIs converted into C# code.
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Java 7u4 Brings Support for OSX
With the release of Java 7u4, Oracle has finally provided an OSX install of the JDK and JavaFX SDK. The update also brings new features, such as the G1 garbage collector and the JCMD diagnostic framework. Read on to find out more.
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Scrum Extensions Update - 1st Quarter 2012
What's happened with scrum extensions since our 4th quarter 2011 update? We asked Alex Armstrong, VP Business Development and Director of Programs at Scrum.org. This article summarizes our interview and discussion with Alex and gives the latest proposed scrum extensions.
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Migrating Existing ASP.NET Website To Windows Azure
Cloud being inherently different from traditional website hosting , making best use of a cloud platform generally requires some architectural changes to an existing application. In his article “Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure”, Peter Laudati explores some of these concerns in detail, in the context of ASP.NET and Windows Azure.
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Async Features Now Available for .NET 4 and Silverlight 5
Microsoft announced the new Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11 Beta, which will allow developers to use asynchronous programming features in .NET 4 or Silverlight 5 applications. These features were previously provided in the Async CTP, which is now deprecated.
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Google Would Have Paid up to $50 Million to License Java, Schmidt Reveals in Oracle vs. Google Trial
Google would have paid Sun's asking price of $30-$50 million to license Java, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt stated at the Oracle vs. Google trial. Google didn't object to the amount of money Sun wanted, but it didn't want to give up too much control over Android. J
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Is SOA Dead as a Term but Alive as a Concept?
In a recent and provocative article for SD Times David Rubinstein emphasizes his opinion that while SOA has gained a lot of momentum as an architectural principle, it might be dead as a term. He quotes analyst Jason Bloomberg, who considers SOA as a bad word. In his opinion, SOA as a technology has already died due to Cloud Computing and the intrinsic complexity of Web services.